Helen Keller Quotes

... my soul stood erect, exultant, envisioning a new world where the light of justice for every individual will be unclouded.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all—the apathy of human beings.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all—the apathy of human beings.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Many scholars forget ... that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. ... very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.